A LIKE ARTIST - COLLECTORS’ ART BOOK
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A like Artist gathers the work of some of the most exciting emerging artists, showcasing their work and vision. Working with a vast array of different mediums, from painting to installation, photography to performance, video, and sculpture, the book offers a unique insight into the artists' work and creative process. All the artists presented in the book have been previously featured on Al-Tiba9's online platform, and all their interviews can be accessed online for a more in-depth experience of their work.
This exceptional book, in a limited edition of 500 copies, is designed to provide each artist with a unique chance to present their work. At the same time, collectors and art lovers alike will have the chance to discover the most promising up-and-coming artists. This collectible art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of an artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.
Art Collector Book “A like Artist” gathers the work of some of the most exciting emerging artists, showcasing their work and vision. This exceptional book, in a limited edition of 500 copies, is designed to provide each artist with a unique chance to present their work. At the same time, collectors and art lovers alike will have the chance to discover the most promising up-and-coming artists. This collectible art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of an artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.
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PUBLISHED ARTISTS.
Acquaetta Williams, Aishwarya Krishnan, Alberto Ballocca, Alex Bonsanthy, Alice Shapiro, Ashling (Yaxin) Tu, Badria Shamsi, Carmen Aztibia, Faith Sycaoyao, Gaspar Marquez, Godwin Constantine, Hwang Sung Mi, HXNNXBLE, JA, Jessica Braccio, Juan Sebastian Diaz, Karim Abed, Ksenia Tsyganyuk, Lavia (Yanzi) Lin, Lola Yiting Zhang, Marco Almaviva, Margarita Howis, Marika Mihalache, Marius Morkūnas, Marlene Jorge, Melissa Allegories, Mira Mink, Natalia Pechenkina, Nemanja Regodic, Niko Pazzaglia, Paulette Gutierrez, Pavel Shynkarenko, Rachel Jag, Robert van de Graaf, Roberto Sabatini, Samanta Masucco, Sarah Owusu-Ansah, Silke Wolff, Sofiya Bokareva, Sveta Amova, Vinitte Chen, water-ish, Yanming Chen, Yishi Deng.
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Art Collector Book “A like Artist” gathers the work of some of the most exciting emerging artists, showcasing their work and vision. This exceptional book, in a limited edition of 500 copies, is designed to provide each artist with a unique chance to present their work. At the same time, collectors and art lovers alike will have the chance to discover the most promising up-and-coming artists. This collectible art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of an artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.
Collector Art Book "Interviews With Artists" Vol.04 is a luxury limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies featuring the best international artists, and it is designed with the most advanced curatorial and editorial skills. The book was launched at ARCO Madrid art fair on 5th March 2025.
This collectible contemporary art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.
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ART FAIR - March 06-10 March 2024
ArtsLibris was founded in 2009 as a publishing fair project specializing in artist’s publications, photobooks, contemporary thought, self-publishing, and digital publications. It has three annual fairs, ArtsLibris Barcelona, ARCOmadrid, and ARCOlisboa. Over the course of eleven editions, ArtsLibris has consolidated an international reputation with a distinct identity rooted in the Mediterranean and Latin American context.
ARTISTS.
Aishwarya Krishnan is a Bangalore-based painter and illustrator with roots in Kerala. Her works primarily revolve around scenes from her time growing up in India, often paying homage to her cultural heritage and family history. Most painted scenes are from nod to the artist’s family background as well. Coming from a long lineage of painters, including Raja Ravi Varma, she intends to bring an impressionist take to Indian scenes.
Faith Sycaoyao is an artist who gleams as a prodigy and resonates with her 19 years of vivid existence in the realm of fine art. Born in the Philippines in 2004 to a Filipino-Chinese heritage, her self-taught expertise encompasses 40+ art forms/techniques, making her an unprecedented young figure in the contemporary art landscape.
Melissa Allegories was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, with ancestry in the Dominican Republic. Melissa's artwork is a mixture of creative writing with allegorical representations. Her artistic style has been subconsciously influenced by and developed out of boundless ideas drawn forth from American culture, universal themes, and an openness to foreign ideology.
Natalia Pechenkina is an interior painting artist from Russia. She employs a diverse range of contemporary techniques in her work, such as bar-relief, sculptural and volumetric painting, mirrors, FluidArt, and epoxy resin. Natalia's art draws heavily from the natural shades of her region, with the foundational colors mirroring the scenic landscapes of Siberia.
Lavia (Yanzi) Lin (b.1995) is a Berlin-based abstract artist and live painting performer from Shanghai, China. Lavia’s art invites the viewers to enter an imaginary dream-like world with visual sounds and harmonious colours. She takes strong conceptual references from music and sounds to create expressive abstract soundscapes. Her works are often inspired by and moved by the imagined organic shapes and shifting sounds of jazz.
Pavel Shynkarenko is a forward-thinking, meta-modernistic artist and entrepreneur who explores the fascinating intersection of technology and human creativity. By delving into meta-modernist ideas, oscillating between opposites like irony and sincerity and subjectivity and objectivity, Shynkarenko's work transcends traditional artistic boundaries. In making new art, Pavel also experiments with AI language models.
Carmen Aztibia is an Argentinian artist, based in Buenos Aires. As an active walker, she observes her surroundings, aware of the vitality that each city has today, from which she takes references. The landscape is also a strong trigger in her poetics. Tightening the boundaries between the self-referential and the collective, her work seeks to reflect on being in society, on exchange as human beings, and on how we collectively inhabit geography.
Sofiya Bokareva is a young talented multidisciplinary artist who positions herself as an artist integrated into several different directions - sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, and design. Sofiya combines her creative work with curatorial activities in the field of art, holding the position of Associate Director and official representative at Art-Prime Gallery.
Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.
Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993 - Turin, Northern Italy) is a contemporary artist whose background is linked to sensitive factors. Alberto works with acrylics, self-made natural pigments, sprays, oil pastels, oil, and more unconventional mediums and supports, both in painting, sculptures, drawing, and private or public wall paintings, continually seeking a bridge between the abstract and the figurative approaches.
The pop-art fine artist Silke Wolff opens a secret, supernatural universe with her metaphysical graphics.Through her widened consciousness, which she has been developing for 20 years of daily meditative practice, she is able to perceive this sphere of existence. Such unique situations she catches with oil pastel drawings in sketchbooks. From these ideas, her series arise, which she creates as digital collages and complete with texts.
Ja is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles whose work portrays raw emotion and contemplation through the human form. Inspired by the connection between emotions and body movement, her work captures the complexity of the human experience. Through the use of abstract figurative compositions, Ja's use of the body as a communicative vessel enables viewers to gain insight into her inner world.
Marika is a visual artist based in Barcelona with a diverse background in design, illustration, and painting, giving her a holistic vision of the creative practice. In her work, she is interested in the never-ending journey of unlearning, erasing, and rewriting what one would define as identity. Her pictures invite viewers to dive into their innate curiosity and sense of wonder while encouraging exploration and (self) reflection.
Lola Yiting Zhang is a concept artist specializing in the entertainment industry. Her unique perspective and sensibility empower her to extract design inspiration from the most unexpected sources. She's always on the hunt for the bizarre and often overlooked elements in nature. Lola's design aesthetics are deeply rooted in her fascination with exploring the untamed beauty of unconventional forms.
Alex Bonsanthy is a self-made artist. But he considers himself to be a late disciple of Van Gogh and an unofficial bastard of Picasso. He likes the impression of colors and forms in either realistic or abstract paintings. His artworks should transmit magic and creative energy using expressive colors and forms. He is a fan of Free Art and uses Geometry as a method to abstract the forms and lines of reality.
Born in Italy, Roberto Sabatini was raised in a family of photographers. While he was influenced by their choices, it wasn't until recently that Roberto adopted photography as a visual art. He is not only interested in showing beauty but also in evoking concepts and emotions. His works range from representational to abstract within this realm. In his recent works, he is focusing on reinterpreting famous artworks and exploring motion blur.
Juan Sebastian Diaz is a Colombian artist, based in Bogotá. His work takes viewers on a virtual journey through time, technologies, and occult forces, raising questions about contemporary relationships with the image. His body serves as the medium and he engages in a dialogue between performance and media arts, with a focus on constructing critical readings of image production and reproduction in contemporary contexts.
Traversing the world, studying long-lost civilizations, team HXNNXBLE found multimedia art as the perfect conduit to present ancient wisdom in a futuristic format. After producing and teaching in Hong Kong for six years (2016-2021), HXNNXBLE currently lives and works nomadically, promoting HXNNXBLE and Aetherealism as their contribution to the world.
Marius Morkūnas, a creator of the young generation, was born in 1976 Lithuania. His works exude minimalism, single strokes, and stylized lines intertwined into a whole. In his work, the artist likes to paint the ships and seaside, where he himself comes from, to convey the fragility of the sea reeds and the breath of the wind. The majority of the artist's works have water motives, space, and undulations.
Marco Almaviva (1934 -) is an Italian painter, the protagonist of a long artistic journey that began in Milan in the early 1960s. Evolving from a testament to life's drama, his practice, which he named Filoplastica, became a metaphor for continuous research that plunges into the depths of matter. His works are effectively "oils on canvas" produced without the canvas to paint on.
Sveta Amova is a mixed media artist, designer, and founder of AMOVA Jewelry. Her latest series, Tennis Reborn, takes as its starting point a humble tennis ball, an object that is all too often considered disposable after it has lost its bounce. Their distinctive fuzz, shape, and bright color inspired the artist to give them a second life and transform them into artworks.
Robert van de Graaf is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is interested in the connections and relations between the mystical in this world, in all its manifestations (the sea, the sky, nature, human-built environments, light and darkness), the sense and the dimension of the spiritual world and our soul. Each piece gives substance to his ongoing journey to seek meaning in life.
Jessica Braccio’s artwork is influenced by her autism. Being on the spectrum helps her create her artwork. Autism is the vehicle that helps Jessica create and encode her artwork. Her Divinity shows her the codes, colors, and shapes to include in each piece, and she acts as a translator. She chooses to consciously create from a space of Divinity, free from trauma and chaos.
Sarah Owusu-Ansah is an artist from Accra, Ghana. Her art is influenced by her daily interests, from her fascination with sci-fi stories and horror movies. The images she creates are dependent on what phase she is going through in her life and her environment at that moment. Her thick application of paint gives the image the space to live freely outside the picture plane.
Rachel Jag is a self-taught artist. Exploring the approach to the unknown, trying to get closer to the creative process of turning one flash of inspiration in a single moment into something with a life of its own, is the most fascinating to the artist. Intuition leads the way. The communication between the artist, the source of her inspiration, and what is being created on paper opens up new, unseen doors and unexplored fields.
Vinitte Chen is a young artist whose main works break away from common art forms such as painting and installation art. Instead, she opts to create unique interactive and multidimensional pieces as to generate an impactful experience for the viewer. Her art allows the viewers to break through the artist's intended interpretation and find their own meaning.
Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.
The Argentinian artist Samanta Masucco builds her artworks from contemplation, dialogue, and interaction with nature and socio-cultural reality. She explores the intimate encounter of elements, cycles, and poetics using paintbrushes, colors, and textures as creationist instruments of the visual gesture.
Godwin Constantine is a visual artist and performer from Sri Lanka. Having studied sociology, philosophy, and literature Godwin’s art practice is connected with varied disciplines, including medicine, neurobiology, sociology, poetry, and visual art. As an artist, his body is the primary medium of his artwork, as its presence creates an intimate appeal to the spectator.
Margarita Howis is a creative rebel and an artist by heart with a background in architecture. Her work is influenced by observing cultural differences and perspectives on authenticity, women's rights, and societal expectations. Through her experiences, she has come to understand the ways in which culture shapes our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
Hwang Sung Mi is a Korean visual artist. She received a B.F.A in Printmaking from the Hong-Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. In her career, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Italy, and Greece, starting in 2008. Her work has been published internationally, in the press, and in artists' books. She works with plastic bags and laces to create flowers.
Yanming Chen is a UI/UX designer, originally from China. She devotes herself to the path of design for its features in avant-garde concepts, visual presentation, and commercial performance. Her inspiration comes from all details she captures in everyday life. She translates what she observes and how she feels into illustrations in her special tone. Her design is often the illustration of her effort in research and observation through vibrant colors in a minimalistic style.
Acquaetta Williams utilizes the feelings, thoughts, and memories inspired by African images to express their relevance to contemporary African American women. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including acrylic paint, glass, paper, canvas, and wood. The materials are diverse, addressing the surface and the depths of each form and connecting them to the stories that emerge from these environments.
Karim Abed was born in El-Kelâa (Tigzirt), a small village in North Africa. He moved to Ontario, Canada, in 2004, where he has lived ever since. His work explores the dynamics of human relations both at the individual and societal levels. Through his photos, he examines the impact of modernity on ancient cultures that are fighting for survival. The idea of power and how it is used in our day and age is at the center of his current work.
water-ish is a Japanese artist. She graduated in Jewelry Design and Gemology, and worked as a designer and Jewelry adviser, before turning to art. She lived in the US and currently resides in Japan, where she practice her art. She works with watercolor on paper, and realizes portraits. Every day she makes a different portrait, which she later shares on Instagram. Currently, she has approximately 7000 works.
Ksenia Tsyganyuk is a Russian artist living in Ukraine. Ksenia reveals the ideas of the inner growth of the personality, and the struggle for freedom through work with images of nature. her latest artworks reflect the theme of memory and identity, as well as the hope of a return to a peaceful life. She seeks points of support to rise and move forward, to help others rebuild their lives.
Marlene Jorge’s process is made of impromptu expression and unforced outbursts, and her compositions are like a personal diary, with works stemming from volatile emotions that well up within her mind and inquisitive spirit. She tries channeling her creative urges in order to produce unique artwork by extracting all creative juice from daily emotion-triggering activities as much as from more personal, deep realms.
Mira Mink is a poet and artist from Helsinki. Mink's ideas come from writing and thinking of writing. "Making art is important right now. I am also a writer, so my art can tell a lot of writing work." Mink's latest art project is an art book called Collection of Photopoetry, written in English and Italian. The book is illustrated with 69 textual images. And Mink has translated her poetry of three previous books.
Nemanja Regodic is a Serbian artist, from Novi Sad. Through his artistic experience, Nemanja tries to incorporate the motifs he encounters in everyday life and mix them with his own perceptions. They are very often strange or ominous, often evoking a certain feeling of mystery or unease. He continues experimenting with the drawings and creating his work through digital tools.
Mid-Emerging Artist Alice Shapiro (b.1946-) began her art career as a portraitist in pastels, oils, and acrylics and found digital creation to be a life-changing creative direction in her art career. Shapiro's influences are Bauhaus, Surrealism, the Collagists, Pop Art, and Installation. Spiritually and creatively, Shapiro sees herself as an interpreter-connector, with collage being the most significant medium to express the relevance of her work.
Gaspar Marquez is a self-taught freelance photographer and videographer doing Fine Art /Fashion & Lifestyle. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He experiments with the Figure form. His work is a celebration of film photography, movement, Cubism, and scale. He attempts to blur these lines, mixing them up and creating an ambiguous vibration or optical illusion between a 2D image and the audience.
Yishi Deng is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Yishi Deng's artwork symbolizes the journey that is taken and finally seeing hope through warm colors. She often references everyday city life through her works and explores the relationship between loneliness and inner peace. Inspired by surrealism and minimalism, the subject matter of each piece is often pulled from reality and a hit of Yishi's imagination.
Badria Shamsi is an expressionist artist from UAE. Her work is an interpretation of how she feels and understands the emotions around her, as well as how she reacts to them. Her intention is to portray the complexity of emotions from one person to another. In each painting, there are different eyes: happy, laughing, careless, curious, boring, and many more. Therefore, it is interesting to define your mood today in a gathering and which eye is yours.

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